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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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